He sold another online education company he started, Achievement Technologies, to Houghton Mifflin in 2006.
Apple has managed to partner with the giants of the textbook business including McGraw-Hill (MHP), Pearson, Houghton, and Mifflin.
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This is marketed and published as a 2007 edition of the 1988 book by Mariner, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin.
The New Geography of Jobs , Enrico Moretti, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Among publishers, Urdan thinks Pearson is the most likely bidder, with McGraw-Hill less likely, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt least likely, since it is private-equity backed.
Apple said it is partnering with several major textbook companies -- including Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who will make e-books for the store, according to Fortune.
Why not leave the obsolete model to Dunder Mifflin?
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In July he stepped down from the top job in favor of a new chief executive, Michael Perik, 50, who had been running Houghton Mifflin's successful K--12 assessment business.
In his new book, The New Geography of Jobs (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), Moretti argues that every high-tech job in a metropolitan area in the U.S. translates into five local service jobs--lawyers, cabdrivers, hairdressers, yoga instructors.
Kids will be able to watch videos, play games, use apps and read books from content partners including Andrews McMeel Publishing, Chronicle Books, DC Comics, Disney, HIT Entertainment, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Marvel, Nickelodeon, PBS, Rainbow and Sesame Workshop.
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The NBC mockumentary about a clan of quirky cubicle-dwellers at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. wraps up May 16 after nine seasons, and a crowd estimated at 10, 000 attended a "Wrap Party" in Scranton to show their appreciation.
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